This 1960/1970s's Puerto Rican activist group inspired by the Black Panthers, organized and ran their own community health center, ree breakfast programs, and several occupations of government buildings in order to force the government on issues affecting latinxs in NYC, and Chicago.

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This Puerto Rican Baseball player because the Latinx player to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame and was a dedicated activist. Among other charitable acts, he raised thousands of dollars in aid for Nicaragua after the country suffered a devastating earthquake. Sadly, he died trying to deliver this aid, in 1972, but will always be remembered as a Latinx icon.

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This Mexican's activism started in her 20s, She was a leader in the Community Services Organization (CSO) and founded the Agricultural Workers Association. She played an instrumental part in securing Aid for Dependent Families and disability insurance for California farmworkers in the early 1960s. In addition to directing the national boycott of California grapes, She was a women’s rights advocate and voice for Latinas for office. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her life’s work by President Barack Obama in 2012.

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The gay liberation movement of the 1960s would have been much less powerful without this Puerto Rican Trans* Activist. Advocating for trans people and people of color within the movement, They are perhaps best known for throwing one of the first bottles during the Stonewall riots. Rivera also started a home dedicated to providing shelter to homeless queer youth via her organization, Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR).

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In the 1960s and ‘70s, he played an instrumental part in transforming The Young Lords, a street gang in Chicago, into The Young Lords Organization, a coalition championing civil rights and equality for the Latinx community.

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